Purpose

Find what you love, and do it. If you don't love what you're doing, you're dead.

You know you have a Vincentian heart when you see hope where others feel despair, and light where others see only darkness.

We are all mortal. What divides us is the use we make of the time and opportunities we have.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond preparing to doing.

We keep waiting until we run out of 'untils.' Then it is too late. Our plane has crashed and we haven't done anything about it. We have passed through life without truly exploring its possibilities.

There is no such thing as failure. What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

Honor your calling. Don't worry about how successful you will be. Focus on how significant you can be in service, and the success will take care of itself.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

I'm doing the best I can.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become.

Do not waste it trying to become someone you're not. Use it to become who you are already.

Don't confuse success with excellence. The poet Robert Penn Warren once told me that 'careerism is death.'